CRT Market Better Able to Warn of Downturn. The credit-risk transfer market created in recent years by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is better poised to warn of systemic risk than the MBS market was prior to the financial crisis, according to new research by Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The Wharton professor noted that the future structure of the housing-finance market, in particular the number of issuers of government-backed MBS, may change how the CRT market functions.A multiple-guarantor model, with each offering its own CRT deals, may be less liquid than the current market with just two issuers, Wachter suggested. Fannie Hires New Communications VP. Fannie Mae has hired Duncan Burns as vice president of...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders who are contesting the government’s net worth sweep may have few options left now that the Supreme Court of the United States has rejected their plea for appeal of lower court rulings that went against them.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reduced their combined mortgage portfolios to $484.2 billion during the fourth quarter of 2017, according to an Inside MBS & ABS analysis.

Redwood Trust grew its non-agency holdings by an impressive 38 percent…

Issuance is increasing across various asset sectors, with many sponsors reporting improved pricing and growing interest from investors…

A few years back, Pinto and AEI unveiled a new mortgage product called the Wealth Building Home Loan, which was intended to provide an affordable mortgage option for low- and middle-income borrowers.

The share price of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common has taken a nosedive since the fall, dropping by almost 50 percent, while leaving speculators twisting in the wind and sitting on potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The reason for the slow but steady decline is hardly surprising: Reform of the government-sponsored enterprises by legislators appears to be a long shot at this point. Moreover, there’s increasing talk in Washington that an “administrative solution” to ...

An estimated $1.148 trillion of home-purchase mortgages were originated in 2017, a 10.7 percent increase from the prior year.

Loans in Tennessee account for the largest portion of the portfolio at 28 percent…

The American Enterprise Institute this week released a proposal to gradually eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through administrative action and reform the FHA program. Many of its recommendations could be implemented by the Federal Housing Finance Agency director that President Trump can nominate early next year.